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BT Internet filter gives parents option to block 'gay lifestyle' content(independent.co.uk)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|2 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Don't forget the keyboard! None of this chiclet insanity or new Lenovo mess.
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The Origins of The ThinkPad Keyboard(blog.lenovo.com)
3 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It looks like Coinbase has a problem managing their float of Bitcoins and/or serious risk management problems. There was a story yesterday about someone wiring over tens of thousands of dollars and not hearing back for 1-2 weeks. My th
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It would be terrible cash management for Overstock to hold onto Bitcoins given the volatile swings. Better to let Bitpay shoulder the burden.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yep, the new Mac Pro is going to be a pain for IT support to move to another desk or office with all its bits hanging off it. That is, of course, if the new Mac Pro ever makes it into the enterprise given Apple's track record in that a
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Are there any new Perl jobs in 2014? Is there growth in the actual number of Perl full-time positions or is it declining? Companies obviously need Perl programmers to maintain and enhance existing systems, but we don't see or hear ab
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Shipping Estimates for Mac Pro Online Orders Slip to February 2014(macrumors.com)
1 points by yapcguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
After 10 years, it's somebody else's problem - you should be on a beach sipping a cool drink!
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It might not be a computer system problem. Perhaps CoinBase (or a rogue employee) were doing some proprietary trading and screwed up badly? Maybe they were trying to quietly recover their losses and weren't expecting a customer to caus
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Yes. The question is why did they refuse to act until this public outcry. My theory? Proprietary trading. The CoinBase guys were probably trading on behalf of the company and screwed up royally, taking a big hit, so they decided to try an
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Agreed, this is a failed trade. They should simply wire back the money to end this matter and blame a back-end gremlin. As a gesture of goodwill, maybe comp the guy $100 credit, cash, starbucks gift cards, whatever. They've actually ma
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Gold has been used as a store of value for thousands of years around the world.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Second this. Get your money back, live to fight another day. Why ask for delivery and suffer a loss?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
> World’s best investors, including Kevin Rose At last I got a laugh scanning the post.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
How does one decide whether to install from a package repository, or directly via gems? What's the typical time lag before a package get updated after a gem does?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Consider yourself fortunate you can't watch the video. It's exactly the kind of maudlin crap we have come to expect from politically correct tech companies.
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Internet porn blocked by British Telecom by default(dailymail.co.uk)
6 points by yapcguy 13y ago|2 comments
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Highly recommended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELVNmxCFP8I A handheld device beeps at you, tells you where to go to get the next item in the cart, you have 15 seconds... and then it repeats all over again... and if you&
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Begs the question, so what exactly does the Google UK office actually do again?! Google "operates" in the UK, the second biggest market for advertising revenue yet manages to book their profits in Ireland because that's where
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by yapcguy 13y ago
I want to know why a random blog post is on HackerNews and why people are voting for it. I want to know if people remember that the author claimed and tried to justify why Apple's iPhone screen size of 3.5 inches was perfect, large scr
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Most of the "techies" aren't sandal wearing hippy programmers. They're carpet-baggers, here for the perceived easy money, because Wall Street gorged itself to bail-out destruction.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
When the UK's Beagle failed, the public reaction was "Oh well, better luck next time.". If the Chinese mission failed, the reaction would probably be "Ha, you guys suck, you need to steal and copy some more". The C
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Do newspapers make similar accusations of 'friendly' countries proven to conduct espionage?
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by yapcguy 13y ago
It still seems to be the thinking today. Success by Asians is smeared as being the result of industrial espionage, cheating or pure luck. This drip feed of soft propaganda and sterotyping can't be good for society, when clearly many ch
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Many of the Thinkpads have easily removeable hard drives, so just take the factory one out, and pop in a SSD. Time to sell, put the factory drive back in.
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Don't forget Google who got lots of media attention: > The Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest international incentive based prize of all time, aims to do something we haven’t done as humanity since 1973, safely land on the surface of
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Qian was a co-founder and very first Director of the JPL, recognised by his peers as being a genius. He didn't need to be a spy, he had everything in his head. His wife even says that he wanted to become a naturalized US citizen. &q
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Imagine, in your twilight years, being able to watch the culmination of your life's work. "The elderly Qian was able to watch China's first manned space mission on television from his hospital bed." http://e
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by yapcguy 13y ago
Bingo. It will inspire millions. Science wins. "“Firstly, the moon is remote from us, and there is no clear short-term benefit for human beings,” says space scientist Yongchun Zheng of the National Astronomical Observatories in Beij

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